Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-07-02
FEATURES OF NEW YORK LIFE.
Sharply Outlined by Those Close OBJ
server. CurnntnSs aEJ Hall.
THE GREAT DOODLE TEIAI-PES-rIcTUSKs OF JACOB
SHARP AND THE JUDGE AND LAWYERS N rBE
CASE LIES ABOUT woNEN's GAMBLING CLUES,
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Correspondence OF TIE EVENING sr,n
NEW YORK. July I.
Tae trial OF Jacob Sharp has been Ia some re-
spectS the most notable that has ever been held IN
Ne~ YORK. In the rear or the Old City Hall, which
ossilS 10 look worn and weather beaten stands
the white stone courthouse, divided into many
rooms ior the several courts. An old apple woman
ana vendor OF coffee and lemonade ply their
TRADE In the rotunda. A room, not over sixty feet
square, on the second floor OF the building is des-
grated by small black and gold sign as the
Court OF oyer and Terminer, old Norman Latin
words which mean 'to hear and determine. "
Across Its entrance a heavy pole upon which
leans large court attendant oostructs the way.
great crowd clamor for admittance on all I'm
portant trials, but the attendant admits only a
limited number into the small Stu1y courtroom.
When he deigns TO admit a person he raises the
pole little way, and the person stoops down and
glides under the obstruction. The room, with its
black-walnut wainscotting and high canopy under
which the judge sits, looks cramped and stuffy.
Its most conspicuous feature is a big thermometer
on the western wall. Ii is one OF the many Their
mometers for which the Tweed ring made the city
OF New York pay 5000 apiece. It Is worth about
slu The whole courthouse IL stocked with relics
OF the Tweed days. When the hour for converting
the court arrives court attendant hammers on
tne Olack-walnut walnscotting with his nst
the wdnscotting on his side or the room They are
announcing that the judge is coming.
JUDGE BARRETT AND HIS COURT.
Judge Barrett, who has written a play and made
himself famous in the Doodle trials, is man OF
medium stature, with a full black beard, highly
arched eyebrows, and the face OF man OF tenn
perate habits. He comes into court with a rapid
stride. The clerks and attendants rise and remain
standing until he Is seated. and then he bows 10
the counsel on both sides. after which the court
crer, who never varies the fnUonatfon or his voice
requests every one having business with the Court
Oh oyer and erIniner TO draw near and be heard.
The strict formatieS OF the court are never varied
and at the adjournment or the court every one Is
expected 10 remain seated until the jury has with
Drawn. One OF the Sharp jurymen became SO Tar
lmoued with a sense OF the etiquette OF the court
that one evening at adjournment, when the audi
ence arose TO go out before the jury had departed
the Juryman sternly raped on the end or the box
as signal for the people to remain seated until
the jury were gone.
THE TRIAL HAS COST JACOB SHARP $50, 600.
Six expensive lawyers have during the I'VE weeks
and more OF the trial sat at a table about their
client. The aggregate daily expense to the de-
PENDANT Of all this array OF legal talent has aver
aged $500 per day, TO say nothing OF retainer fees
Which averaged from $500 TO $4,000 Besides this
was the expense entailed for agents and private
detectives In the interest or Mr. sharp. Added to
this was the cost OF employing stenographers by
the defendant, who has had In his service one OF
the most expert shorthand writers In the United
States, short thfck-Set man, who has taken the
a, 900 words OF evidence a day with apparently
less eXertion than any body employed In the case.
The courts Stenographer, who is said to have no
superior In America, has been reporting trials In
the same tribunal for more than twenty years.
He wrote the record OF the Tweed TRIAL, and treas
ures among his relics a friendly communication
received from Tweed during the progress OF the
trial. These stenographers have taken daily notes
which it would have required one man twenty
1--WE hours TO write out in long hand After the ad-
tournament OF court they have taken a hurT1 a
luncheon and FASTENED to their offices. They have
dictated their notes for about two hours To other
St,ann In Ia rr on
and the remainder OF the days record mas been
dictated to expert lady typewriters. IL has taken
until or O'Clock In the morning to finish the
work, and the stenographer has been Obliged To be
ia court at $3.50 O'Clock. None but a man Injured
To this kind or work could have endured this strain
for more than fiye weeks even at the liberal CON-
pensation OF s. per hour, which sharp Is said 10
have paid his private Stenographer. The aggre-
gate expense OF his trial to the defendant has been
more than $50, 600.
The most striking feature OF the force for the
defense Is the veteran Judge Fullerton, famous
from his connection with the Beecher and Tweed
trials He wears his musJache short cropped,
his rather full face is slightly flushed and his keen
gray eyes CLINT through a pair OF old-iasnined
spectacles as he gazes at bis opponent with stern
look.
THE BROKEN DOWN OLD MAN AND HIS FAITHFUL
GRANDSON.
The defendant himself has presented a spectacle
OF the most abject woe ever seen in a New York
court room. When the case had assumed its
darkest prospect his wonderful will power, that
had enabled him TO keep up during previous
vicissitudes, began TO give way. He has long been
the victim OF kidney trouble, and when he began
to Succumb to the strain or the trial his nabby,
rather full race assumed an almost purple cast,
his graywhiskered chin dropped down, leaving
his mouth open and giving his face CHASTITY APP
pearance; his eyes at times closed dreariy and
his head dropped on his hand In an attitude OF
detection. Occasionally he would start up with a
startled look, and his little gray eyes would
wander to the jury box with look OF anxious
inquiry. AT every moment during the long trial
as Ia hnV,i
face, has sat at his grandSires elbow The patient
and constant devotion or this lad has been one
OF the features OF the great tra and the keen con-
tempt with which he has eyed the three dig
deputy SherfnS who have continually sat close
about Mr.. Sharp TO see that he did not follow the
example or Tweed and escape Mr.. Sharp, VINO,
by The way, is member or the Blossom Club, TO
which Tweed belonged, was never a popular
member OF the club, nor Is he at all a fayOriJe
with the men Win whom he has come in contact.
No man ever enjoyed more the unSelhsh devotion
OF his family in his hours OF adversely.
THE LAWYERS WHO CONVICTED SHARP.
Among the four lawyers who worked to send
Sharp TO Sing Sing, the most conspicuous has been
Assistant District Attorney Nicoll. He is type
that OUida could use as the noble hero OF one OF
her novels. He Is very young, formed like an
AdoniS, and endowed with handsome clean-cuU
features, a handsome head OF brown hair and a
ShOrt-crOpped, tawny mu,tache. The glory OF his
expression. however, Is pair Of light blue eyes,
side OF his head is the only defect OF his ap
pearance His reputation and future prospects
depended On the outcome OF the Sharp trial, and
no expense was spared in procuring evidence on
behalf OF the prosecution. More than twenty
secret agents, employed at high salaries, were at
work all the while getting Information as TO wit
neSSeS, Jurors or any attempt on the part OF the
defendants TO escape. The great gun or the prose-
cutiOn force, Col. Fellows is short, stout, and
quick, wears wondrous head OF short, curly hair,
and shows his even white teeth as he talks with a
smile on his smooth features. He has the most
distinct utterance and the best faculty OF making
Intricate legal problems plain TO layman or any
MARITIME, portly man with black mustache and
gray eyes, is, next TO Mr.. Nicou, the handsomeSt
lawyer engaged in the suit.
THE FORCE OF NEWSPAPER MEN
employed on the case has been bewiideringly
great. A score OF them gathered about the long
reporters table. others sat In the seats in the
auditorium and artists from the illustrated papers
struggled for vantage ground anywhere about the
courtroom from which TO sketch the faces o. the
principal actors in the trial. One afternoon paper
has had force OF one writer and two stenograph-
ers who sat at the end Of the judges bench. When
the proceedings became interesting the reporter in
order TO better hear the proceedings, would stand
at the end Of the judges bench and write on the
bench itself. Judge Barrett has a warm side To-
AMOS j. CuNMrNGs
Women OF New York.
The lies told about the ladies OF New York are at
times appalling. Ia scope, variety, structural
strength intensity Of Imagination and absolute
and unremiting wickedness they are unapproach-
able It Is, however, curiouSly enough an easy
matter TO see why the lies are told. The difficulty
OF detecting the difference between lady and a
beyond ali belief An adventures whoOps things
up and Raises the deuce and she appears In public